WandaVision and the CMBR. What’s the CMBR?
Okay, yeah - Disney+'s WandaVision is full of fun callouts, Easter Eggs, and hints about the Marvel Cinematic Universe to come, but episode 4, “We Interrupt This Program” had the biggest of callouts - literally. Just after astrophysicist Dr. Darcy Lewis (Kat...
Scienceish Lesson: Hawks in Spaaace!
If you’ve been around here for a while, or even if this is your first stop, it’s pretty obvious - we’re all about blending pop culture and science. Hawkman and Hawkwoman (the Katar and Shayera Hol versions from Thanagar) have always had science fiction in their DNA....
Scienceish Lesson: The Alcubierre Drive & the Flash
Scienish Lesson - The Alcubierre Drive from Flash: Fastest Man Alive #7 in a story by Jay Baruchel and Sumit Kumar. In the story, STAR Labs is testing an Alcubierre Drive - a real (okay, still theoretical, but rumored to be of high interest to NASA) thing. But this...
Marvel Cosmology: A Skrull Census
The Skrull are one of the oldest threats to the earth in the Marvel Universe. The green, wrinkly-chinned, pointy-eared, shapeshifting aliens have had a heck of a run. While Marvel movie fans first spotted them in Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far From Home, they’ve...
Game of Thrones Winter, Geoengineering Here?
It’s been a little while since the Game of Thrones ended, feelings might have calmed...a little, and good memories may have started to creep in and cover up the perhaps no-so-good memories, so let’s go back to Westeros. One of Game of Thrones’ central plot points was...
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